Department of Applied Optics & Photonics

Contact	Year of Establishment	Courses Offered	Faculty Members	Research Work
Departmental Webpage : www.aop.caluniv.in

Contact

92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata - 700 009, India
Phone : 033 2350 8386 / 033 2350 6387 / 033 2351 9755 Extn. 480
Fax : 91-033-2351-9755

Year of Establishment

The erstwhile Optics and Optoelectronics Division of the Department of Applied Physics was re-christened as the Department of Applied Optics and Photonics in 2005, to initiate and strengthen an integrated approach in the research and teaching in emerging areas like, imaging technology, optical Instrumentation including Astronomical Instrumentation, Photonics including laser engineering, fiber optics and integrated optics, computer-aided design of optical components and systems, diffractive optics, optical metrology and instrumentation, optical computing, image processing and pattern recognition, nano-photonics, marine photonics, bio-photonics, etc

Courses Offered

Programme	Level of Study	Cut-off Mark at entry	Intake Capacity
B.Tech in Optics & Optoelectronics (3 years- 6 Semester)	U.G.	B.Sc. Honours in Physics / Electronic Science (In order of merit)	20
M.Tech in Optics & Opto-electronics (2 years- 4 semester)	P.G.	B. Tech / M.Sc. (Tech) in Optics & Optoelectronics, B.Tech in ET, M.Sc. in Physics (2 years) (In order of merit)	10+5
Integrated M.Tech-PhD (Tech) in Astronomical Instrumentation	P.G In collaboration with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore	B.Tech/ M.Sc in Optics & Optoelctronics, Applied Physics, Radio Physics & Electronics and there equivalents	10 (admission through all India Examination and an interview
Ph.D. in Technology	Doctoral	B.Tech and M.Tech degree holders are eligible subject to Ph.D regulation

Faculty Members

Name	Specialisation	Telephone No.	E-mail ID
Professors
Prof. A. K. Chakraborty	Polarization Optics and Optical image processing	2571-3853	akc_000@rediffmail.com
Prof. A. K. Datta	Photonics, Optical and Soft computing	2274-2478	asitdatta@gmail.com
Prof. A. Basuray	Optical fiber & waveguide, Laser physics, Non linear Optics	2413-8567	abasuray@rediffmail.com
Prof. L.N. Hazra	Applied Optics, Optical Design, Diffractive optics	2358-7302	lnhazra@sify.com
Prof. Ajay Ghosh	Polarization, Optical Instruments, Optical metrology, beam shaping	2417-3791	aghosh.cu@gmail.com agaphy@caluniv.ac.in
Dr. S. K. Sarkar	Optics & Optoelectronics Instrumentation, Optical system assessment, Photonic devices	2430-7593	samir_cu@rediffmail.com
Readers
Dr. K. Bhattacharyya	Polarization Optics, Birefringence analysis	2549-7701	khattacharya@gmail.com kbaphy@caluniv.ac.in
Lecturer
Dr. (Mrs.) Mina Ray	Digital Image Processing, Optical testing, Laser technology	26423070	mina_ray@rediffmail.com

Research Work

Thrust Areas

Optical and hybrid image processing, Imaging technology, Optimization techniques in lens design, Polarization optics, Fiber optics, Optical computing and pattern recognition, Nano-photonics, Optical instrumentation, Optical metrology, Non-linear optical phenomenon, Diffractive optics, Marine photonics, Bio-photonics etc.

For the promotion of research and training in specified areas the Department has MOU with
(1) Central Scientific Instrument Organization (CSIR), Chandigarh,
(2) Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (DRDO), Kochi and
(3) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

A Centre for Researches in Applied Photonics (C-RAP) has been established in 2002

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Research Projects undertaken by faculty members

Name of the Investigator	Title of the project	Duration	Amount Rs. in Lacs	Sponsoring Agency
Prof. A.K.Chakraborty	Development of optical and optoelectronic systems using polarization devices	1997-2000	4.00	AICTE
Prof. A. K. Datta	Development of application facilities in optoelctronics technology	1993-95	15.00	MHRD
	Investigation on symbolic substitution rules for intelligent resolution in optical architecture	1992-96	2.63	UGC
	Optical Computing	1997-2000	19.90	DST
	Facilities for computer vision and cognitive technology	1999-2001	11.00	AICTE
	Performance improvement of Optical correlator using soft computing techniques	2007-2009	24.89	DRDO(IRDE)
Prof. A. Basuray	Development of microprocessor based OTF measurement system	1983-87	6.7	DOE
	Development of automatic GRIN lens characterisation technique	2000-2003	11.0	CSIR
	Development of optical imaging system for furnacescope	1998-99	1.3	TISCO
	Development of closed loop adaptive optics control algorithm using experimental data	1999-2001	6.5	AICTE
	Modal analysis of ring laser	2001-03	15.0	ELOIRA, DRDO
	Computer simulation of Ring resonator design	2004-06	16.8	RCI, DRDO
Prof. L. N. Hazra	Surface Relief Diffractive Optical Elements			DST
	Design & Development of Zoom lens of remote viewing			DAE-BRNS
	Global optimization of lens design	1999-2002	15.0	DST
	Laser Beam shaping by Walsh Filtering	1999-2001	15.0	AICTE
	Optical Design and Analysis of Multi-spectral NFOV Optical Channels for 1m Beam directing Telescope	2005-2008	10.0	DRDO
Prof. A. Ghosh	Studies on the performance of birefringent optical elements and their applications	1996-99	3.80	CSIR
	Vector-wave imagery and image processing	1996-99	6.00	AICTE
	Beam shaping using phase-only filter at fractional Fourier transform plane	2001-03	11.95	DRDO
	Studies on the performance of aberrated birefringent lens	2000-2004	9.00	CSIR
Dr. S. K. Sarkar	Studies on nonlinearities of organic dye in PVA matrix	2003-06		AICTE
DR. K. Bhattacharya	Birefringence characterization and optical phase measurements by common path(cyclic)interferometer using polarization phase	2007-10	10.0 appx. (2,490,000 Yen)	MAST, Japan

Coordinated Research Projects for the department

Name of the Coordinator	Title of the project	Duration	Amount Rs. in Lacs	Sponsoring Agency
Prof. L. N. Hazra	PHOTONICS	2004-	37.00+	UGC-SAP-DRS
Prof. L. N. Hazra	CENTRE FOR IMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	2007-	100.00	UGC